One Apple A Day #952 - what we see shapes us
My eyes are far from perfect.
I began to wear glasses in my first year of school when we discover that I couldn't read the blackboard from the last row in class.
I was short-sighted, in particular on my left eye. Plus, I also have significant astigmatism in my left eye.
Glasses solved my sight problems even if I had to change quite often because my myopic kept getting worse while I was growing up.
When I was in my mid-thirties, I was often suffering from neck pain, and I couldn't find a solution.
Until I went to an osteopath.
The combination of my sight problems makes me see the world a little tilted toward the left since I was born. As a result, I adapted my posture to reflect the world that I was seeing. And because the glasses didn't solve perfectly this error in my vision, I kept doing that for many years. In particular, while growing up.
As a result, my pelvis is now tilted slightly to the left, my left leg is a few millimetres shorter.
My body adapted to the reality my eyes was seeing.
Unfortunately, when I discovered that it was too late to fix my pelvis. But I solved my neck problem just by better correcting my vision problems.
I've learned an important lesson through this experience.
The way we see the world has a real impact on how we shape our reality and ourselves.